Bug 2360470 - Review Request: intel-npu-compiler - Intel Neural Processing Unit Compiler
Summary: Review Request: intel-npu-compiler - Intel Neural Processing Unit Compiler
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: Package Review
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Benson Muite
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/np...
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-04-16 21:26 UTC by Ali Erdinc Koroglu
Modified: 2025-06-06 09:18 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2025-06-06 08:48:13 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:
benson_muite: fedora-review?


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Red Hat Issue Tracker FC-1606 0 None None None 2025-04-18 13:14:43 UTC

Description Ali Erdinc Koroglu 2025-04-16 21:26:23 UTC
SPEC Url: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/aekoroglu/fedora/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/08910999-intel-npu-compiler/intel-npu-compiler.spec
SRPM Url: https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/aekoroglu/fedora/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/08910999-intel-npu-compiler/intel-npu-compiler-2025.12-1.fc43.src.rpm

Description:
Intel NPU device is an AI inference accelerator integrated with Intel client
CPUs, starting from Intel Core Ultra generation of CPUs (formerly known as
Meteor Lake). It enables energy-efficient execution of artificial neural
network tasks

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Fedora Review Service 2025-04-16 23:39:56 UTC
Copr build:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/8911622
(succeeded)

Review template:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/@fedora-review/fedora-review-2360470-intel-npu-compiler/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/08911622-intel-npu-compiler/fedora-review/review.txt

Found issues:

- No gcc, gcc-c++ or clang found in BuildRequires
  Read more: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/C_and_C++/

Please know that there can be false-positives.

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Comment 3 Benson Muite 2025-04-17 14:57:35 UTC
Package Review
==============

Legend:
[x] = Pass, [!] = Fail, [-] = Not applicable, [?] = Not evaluated
[ ] = Manual review needed


Issues:
=======
- If your application is a C or C++ application you must list a
  BuildRequires against gcc, gcc-c++ or clang.
  Note: No gcc, gcc-c++ or clang found in BuildRequires
  See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/C_and_C++/


===== MUST items =====

C/C++:
[x]: Package does not contain kernel modules.
[x]: Header files in -devel subpackage, if present.
[x]: ldconfig not called in %post and %postun for Fedora 28 and later.
[x]: Package does not contain any libtool archives (.la)
[x]: Package contains no static executables.
[x]: Rpath absent or only used for internal libs.
[x]: Development (unversioned) .so files in -devel subpackage, if present.

Generic:
[x]: Package is licensed with an open-source compatible license and meets
     other legal requirements as defined in the legal section of Packaging
     Guidelines.
[ ]: License field in the package spec file matches the actual license.
     Note: Checking patched sources after %prep for licenses. Licenses
     found: "Unknown or generated", "Apache License 2.0", "*No copyright*
     Apache License 2.0", "MIT License", "BSD 3-Clause License", "zlib
     License", "Apache License 2.0 and/or BSD 3-Clause License", "Apache
     License 2.0 [generated file]", "*No copyright* Apache License 2.0
     and/or MIT License", "MIT License and/or zlib License", "Apache
     License", "Intel Open Source License", "*No copyright* Apache License
     2.0 [generated file]", "GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
     [generated file]", "*No copyright* Creative Commons Attribution 3.0",
     "*No copyright* GNU General Public License, Version 3", "GNU General
     Public License", "*No copyright* Apache License", "*No copyright* MIT
     License", "Apache License 2.0 and/or MIT License", "Apache License 2.0
     and/or Boost Software License 1.0", "*No copyright* Apache License 2.0
     and/or Public domain", "Apache License 2.0 and/or Unicode License
     Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)", "*No copyright* Creative
     Commons CC0 1.0", "Apache License 2.0 and/or Unicode License Agreement
     - Data Files and Software (2015)", "Public domain", "Apache License
     2.0 and/or Unicode License Agreement - Data Files and Software (2016)
     [generated file]", "ISC License", "BSD 2-Clause License", "*No
     copyright* Apache License 2.0 and/or Creative Commons CC0 1.0",
     "Apache License 2.0 and/or Historical Permission Notice and
     Disclaimer", "FSF All Permissive License", "*No copyright* ISC
     License", "Apple Public Source License 2.0", "BSD 2-Clause with views
     sentence". 108017 files have unknown license. Detailed output of
     licensecheck in /home/fedora-packaging/reviews/intel-npu/2360470-
     intel-npu-compiler/licensecheck.txt
[ ]: License file installed when any subpackage combination is installed.
[ ]: %build honors applicable compiler flags or justifies otherwise.
[ ]: Package contains no bundled libraries without FPC exception.
[x]: Changelog in prescribed format.
[x]: Sources contain only permissible code or content.
[-]: Package contains desktop file if it is a GUI application.
[x]: Development files must be in a -devel package
[x]: Package uses nothing in %doc for runtime.
[x]: Package consistently uses macros (instead of hard-coded directory
     names).
[x]: Package is named according to the Package Naming Guidelines.
[x]: Package does not generate any conflict.
[x]: Package obeys FHS, except libexecdir and /usr/target.
[-]: If the package is a rename of another package, proper Obsoletes and
     Provides are present.
[ ]: Requires correct, justified where necessary.
[x]: Spec file is legible and written in American English.
[-]: Package contains systemd file(s) if in need.
[ ]: Useful -debuginfo package or justification otherwise.
[ ]: Package is not known to require an ExcludeArch tag.
[ ]: Package complies to the Packaging Guidelines
[x]: Package successfully compiles and builds into binary rpms on at least
     one supported primary architecture.
[x]: Package installs properly.
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all rpms the build produces.
     Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: If (and only if) the source package includes the text of the
     license(s) in its own file, then that file, containing the text of the
     license(s) for the package is included in %license.
[x]: The License field must be a valid SPDX expression.
[x]: Package requires other packages for directories it uses.
[x]: Package must own all directories that it creates.
[x]: Package does not own files or directories owned by other packages.
[x]: Package uses either %{buildroot} or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
[x]: Package does not run rm -rf %{buildroot} (or $RPM_BUILD_ROOT) at the
     beginning of %install.
[x]: Macros in Summary, %description expandable at SRPM build time.
[x]: Dist tag is present.
[x]: Package does not contain duplicates in %files.
[x]: Permissions on files are set properly.
[x]: Package must not depend on deprecated() packages.
[x]: Package use %makeinstall only when make install DESTDIR=... doesn't
     work.
[x]: Package is named using only allowed ASCII characters.
[x]: Package does not use a name that already exists.
[x]: Package is not relocatable.
[x]: Sources used to build the package match the upstream source, as
     provided in the spec URL.
[x]: Spec file name must match the spec package %{name}, in the format
     %{name}.spec.
[x]: File names are valid UTF-8.
[x]: Large documentation must go in a -doc subpackage. Large could be size
     (~1MB) or number of files.
     Note: Documentation size is 0 bytes in 0 files.
[x]: Packages must not store files under /srv, /opt or /usr/local

===== SHOULD items =====

Generic:
[!]: Sources can be downloaded from URI in Source: tag
     Note: Could not download Source5: https://github.com/intel/npu-plugin-
     llvm/arhcive/0d1145010d6d2ba48a945c824ed0ca03254b94ed/npu-plugin-
     llvm-0d11450.tar.gz, Source0:
     https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/npu_compiler/archive/npu_ud_2025_12_rc2/intel-
     npu-compiler-2025_12_rc2.tar.gz
     See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-
     guidelines/SourceURL/
[ ]: If the source package does not include license text(s) as a separate
     file from upstream, the packager SHOULD query upstream to include it.
[x]: Final provides and requires are sane (see attachments).
[ ]: Package functions as described.
[x]: Latest version is packaged.
[x]: Package does not include license text files separate from upstream.
[ ]: Patches link to upstream bugs/comments/lists or are otherwise
     justified.
[ ]: SourceX tarball generation or download is documented.
     Note: Package contains tarball without URL, check comments
[-]: Sources are verified with gpgverify first in %prep if upstream
     publishes signatures.
     Note: gpgverify is not used.
[ ]: %check is present and all tests pass.
[ ]: Packages should try to preserve timestamps of original installed
     files.
[!]: Spec use %global instead of %define unless justified.
     Note: %define requiring justification: %define pkg_ver 2025_12_rc2,
     %define ov_ver 2025.0.0
[x]: Reviewer should test that the package builds in mock.
[x]: Buildroot is not present
[x]: Package has no %clean section with rm -rf %{buildroot} (or
     $RPM_BUILD_ROOT)
[x]: No file requires outside of /etc, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin.
[x]: Fully versioned dependency in subpackages if applicable.
[x]: Packager, Vendor, PreReq, Copyright tags should not be in spec file
[x]: SourceX is a working URL.
[x]: Package should compile and build into binary rpms on all supported
     architectures.

===== EXTRA items =====

Generic:
[x]: Rpmlint is run on debuginfo package(s).
     Note: No rpmlint messages.
[x]: Rpmlint is run on all installed packages.
     Note: There are rpmlint messages (see attachment).
[x]: Large data in /usr/share should live in a noarch subpackage if package
     is arched.
[x]: Spec file according to URL is the same as in SRPM.


Rpmlint
-------
Checking: intel-npu-compiler-2025.12-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
          intel-npu-compiler-devel-2025.12-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
          intel-npu-compiler-2025.12-1.fc43.src.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.6.1
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmp2z25820_')]
checks: 32, packages: 3

intel-npu-compiler.spec:53: W: unversioned-explicit-provides bundled(openvino)
intel-npu-compiler.spec:55: W: unversioned-explicit-provides bundled(level-zero-npu-extensions)
intel-npu-compiler.spec:57: W: unversioned-explicit-provides bundled(openvino-npu_plugin_elf)
intel-npu-compiler.spec:59: W: unversioned-explicit-provides bundled(npu-nn-cost-model)
intel-npu-compiler.spec:61: W: unversioned-explicit-provides bundled(npu-plugin-llvm)
intel-npu-compiler.spec:63: W: unversioned-explicit-provides bundled(flatbuffers)
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary compile_tool
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: W: no-documentation
intel-npu-compiler-devel.x86_64: W: no-documentation
intel-npu-compiler.spec: W: no-%check-section
 3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 10 warnings, 20 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 10.5 s 




Rpmlint (debuginfo)
-------------------
Checking: intel-npu-compiler-debuginfo-2025.12-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.6.1
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
rpmlintrc: [PosixPath('/tmp/tmps2trgz1p')]
checks: 32, packages: 1

 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings, 12 filtered, 0 badness; has taken 0.8 s 





Rpmlint (installed packages)
----------------------------
============================ rpmlint session starts ============================
rpmlint: 2.7.0
configuration:
    /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/rpmlint/configdefaults.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora-spdx-licenses.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/fedora.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/scoring.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/users-groups.toml
    /etc/xdg/rpmlint/warn-on-functions.toml
checks: 32, packages: 3

intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: E: undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12 _ZNK4vpux12CompilerImpl5queryB5cxx11ERKSt10shared_ptrIKN2ov5ModelEERKN9intel_npu6ConfigE	(/usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12)
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: E: undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12 _ZNK4vpux12CompilerImpl7compileERKSt10shared_ptrIN2ov5ModelEERKN9intel_npu6ConfigERNS_13BlobAllocatorE	(/usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12)
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: E: undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12 _ZNK4vpux12CompilerImpl7compileERKSt10shared_ptrIN2ov5ModelEERKN9intel_npu6ConfigE	(/usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12)
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: E: undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12 _ZN4vpux12CompilerImplC1Ev	(/usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12)
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: E: undefined-non-weak-symbol /usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12 _ZNK4vpux12CompilerImpl24getSupportedOpsetVersionEv	(/usr/lib64/libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025.12)
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: W: no-manual-page-for-binary compile_tool
intel-npu-compiler.x86_64: W: no-documentation
intel-npu-compiler-devel.x86_64: W: no-documentation
 3 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 5 errors, 3 warnings, 30 filtered, 5 badness; has taken 0.8 s 



Source checksums
----------------
https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/archive/6df40a2471737b27271bdd9b900ab5f3aec746c7/flatbuffers-6df40a2.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : 4aa372a30703e1801514c95281966bbd7c8fb4029ab73af0d911d43ef1d3ab11
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : 4aa372a30703e1801514c95281966bbd7c8fb4029ab73af0d911d43ef1d3ab11
https://github.com/intel/npu-nn-cost-model/archive/a965531d3d3a37748cc5ab7feac342b35baaf7b4/npu-nn-cost-model-a965531.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : ab5eaec64fc41e6e95edf13a748d2218a8bc22a5500d6d45f38079b4af92e949
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : ab5eaec64fc41e6e95edf13a748d2218a8bc22a5500d6d45f38079b4af92e949
https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/npu_plugin_elf/archive/ce501d3059c81fd6bd0ad7165ab823838fa5d851/npu_plugin_elf-ce501d3.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : c46377f0ce88c5654bc9b0725bfe418a54502bcc99180fb6232f3bbc51011e1e
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : c46377f0ce88c5654bc9b0725bfe418a54502bcc99180fb6232f3bbc51011e1e
https://github.com/intel/level-zero-npu-extensions/archive/110f48ee8eda22d8b40daeeecdbbed0fc3b08f8b/level-zero-npu-extensions-110f48e.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : 2af2d960ec0b84652650c6a97a19ffae5d5c9b2fa6a12a75497899d633ea0520
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : 2af2d960ec0b84652650c6a97a19ffae5d5c9b2fa6a12a75497899d633ea0520
https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/archive/2025.0.0/openvino-2025.0.0.tar.gz :
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) this package     : d2cbff5a0ac1bc738c33ba103569f8daf20d3a17d3db94da11ae207ffb9e4395
  CHECKSUM(SHA256) upstream package : d2cbff5a0ac1bc738c33ba103569f8daf20d3a17d3db94da11ae207ffb9e4395


Requires
--------
intel-npu-compiler (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    libc.so.6()(64bit)
    libgcc_s.so.1()(64bit)
    libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)(64bit)
    libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.3.1)(64bit)
    libgflags.so.2.2()(64bit)
    libopenvino.so.2500()(64bit)
    libstdc++.so.6()(64bit)
    libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3)(64bit)
    libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.11)(64bit)
    libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.5)(64bit)
    libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3.9)(64bit)
    rtld(GNU_HASH)

intel-npu-compiler-devel (rpmlib, GLIBC filtered):
    intel-npu-compiler(x86-64)
    libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025()(64bit)



Provides
--------
intel-npu-compiler:
    bundled(flatbuffers)
    bundled(level-zero-npu-extensions)
    bundled(npu-nn-cost-model)
    bundled(npu-plugin-llvm)
    bundled(openvino)
    bundled(openvino-npu_plugin_elf)
    intel-npu-compiler
    intel-npu-compiler(x86-64)
    libnpu_driver_compiler.so.2025()(64bit)

intel-npu-compiler-devel:
    intel-npu-compiler-devel
    intel-npu-compiler-devel(x86-64)



Generated by fedora-review 0.10.0 (e79b66b) last change: 2023-07-24
Command line :/usr/bin/fedora-review -b 2360470
Buildroot used: fedora-rawhide-x86_64
Active plugins: Shell-api, C/C++, Generic
Disabled plugins: R, fonts, Java, SugarActivity, Ocaml, Perl, Haskell, PHP, Python
Disabled flags: EXARCH, EPEL6, EPEL7, DISTTAG, BATCH

Comments:
a) Koji build:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=131632693
b) Is it possible to use the OpenVINO in Fedora:
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/openvino/
c) Is it possible to use the FlatBuffers in Fedora:
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/flatbuffers/
d) Can level-zero-npu-extensions, npu-nn-cost-model
npu-plugin-llvm and openvino-npu_plugin_elf be packaged separately?
Ideally upstream would pin on release commits when they do a release.
e) Please change
%define pkg_ver 2025_12_rc2
%define ov_ver 2025.0.0
to
%global pkg_ver 2025_12_rc2
%global ov_ver 2025.0.0
f) Found issues:

- No gcc, gcc-c++ or clang found in BuildRequires
is a false positive
g) It does not build on Fedora42. Not a blocker, but may want to check why.
h) Is it possible to add some documentation? for example a man page.
i) Some of the bundled libraries have a number of additional licenses.  It maybe
better to review them separately.
j) Can any tests be run?

Comment 4 Adam Jackson 2025-04-17 18:22:47 UTC
I tried to install this from the copr and got:

Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
  - file /usr/bin/compile_tool conflicts between attempted installs of intel-npu-compiler-2025.12-1.fc43.x86_64 and openvino-plugins-2025.0.0-4.fc43.x86_64

That's not going to work very well.

Comment 5 Adam Jackson 2025-04-17 20:09:54 UTC
Also, when trying to compile resnet50:

Read IR model from model/ir_model/resnet50_fp16.xml
[WARNING] 16:04:11.667 [NPUZeroInitStructsHolder] Graph extension version from driver is 1.10. Larger than plugin max graph ext version 1.9. Force to use plugin ext version with the new table to control flow!
[WARNING] 16:04:11.745 [serializeConfig] ENABLE_CPU_PINNING property is not supported by this compiler version. Removing from parameters
[WARNING] 16:04:11.745 [serializeConfig] NPU_STEPPING property is not supported by this compiler version. Removing from parameters
[WARNING] 16:04:11.745 [serializeConfig] NPU_MAX_TILES property is not supported by this compiler version. Removing from parameters
[WARNING] 16:04:11.745 [serializeConfig] INFERENCE_PRECISION_HINT property is not supported by this compiler version. Removing from parameters
[WARNING] 16:04:11.745 [serializeConfig] NPU_BATCH_MODE property is not supported by this compiler version. Removing from parameters
[WARNING] 16:04:11.745 [serializeConfig] EXECUTION_MODE_HINT property is not supported by this compiler version. Removing from parameters
[WARNING] 16:04:11.745 [serializeConfig] COMPILER_DYNAMIC_QUANTIZATION property is not supported by this compiler version. Removing from parameters
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/home/ajax/npu-test/resnet.py", line 25, in <module>
    compiled = core.compile_model(model, "NPU")
  File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/openvino/_ov_api.py", line 597, in compile_model
    super().compile_model(model, device_name, {} if config is None else config),
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
RuntimeError: Exception from src/inference/src/cpp/core.cpp:109:
Exception from src/inference/src/dev/plugin.cpp:53:
Exception from src/plugins/intel_npu/src/plugin/src/plugin.cpp:750:
Exception from src/plugins/intel_npu/src/compiler_adapter/src/ze_graph_ext_wrappers.cpp:361:
L0 pfnCreate2 result: ZE_RESULT_ERROR_UNKNOWN, code 0x7ffffffe - an action is required to complete the desired operation . ZE DynamicCaching cache_status_t: cache_status_t::found


That looks a bit like the bundled version of openvino is internally incompatible with the fedora package. This might suggest it's best to try to build this driver _from_ the fedora openvino package, although that probably has its own challenges...

Comment 6 Ali Erdinc Koroglu 2025-04-22 04:30:56 UTC
> This might suggest it's best to try to build this driver _from_ the fedora openvino package, although that probably has its own challenges

Yes, I agree. I'll let you know asap. Thanks

Comment 7 Niels De Graef 2025-06-05 12:00:17 UTC
@ajax , @aekoroglu.com : IIUC we've started building the compiler from the openvino package itself, so maybe we should close this issue? WDYT?

Comment 8 Ali Erdinc Koroglu 2025-06-06 08:48:13 UTC
You're right Niels, I'm closing the ticket.

Comment 9 Niels De Graef 2025-06-06 09:18:27 UTC
Thanks Ali!


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